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Volume 51, No. 20

B.C. Reg. 282/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 21, 2008

B.C. Reg. 282/2008 , deposited October 15, 2008, pursuant to the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [Section 12 (2)]. Ministerial Order M242/2008, dated October 10, 2008.

I, George Abbott, Minister of Health Services, order that effective October 17, 2008, the attached Naturopathic Physicians Regulation is made.

— G. ABBOTT, Minister of Health Services.

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

College name

Reserved titles

Scope of practice

Restricted activities

Limits or conditions on services

Patient relations program

Health profession corporations

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Health Professions Act ;

"naturopathic medicine" means the art of healing by natural methods or therapeutics, including the first aid treatment of minor cuts, abrasions and contusions, bandaging, taking of blood samples, and the prescribing or administering of authorized preparations and medicines.

College name

2 The name "College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia" is the name of the college established under

section 15 (1) of the Act for naturopathic medicine.

Reserved titles

(1) The following titles are reserved for exclusive use by registrants:

(

a) naturopath;

(

b) naturopathic physician;

(

c) naturopathic doctor;

(

d) physician;

(

e) doctor.

(2) This

section does not prevent a person from using

(

a) the title "physician" or "doctor" in a manner authorized by another enactment that regulates a health profession, or

(

b) an academic or educational designation that the person is entitled to use.

Scope of practice

4 A registrant may practise naturopathic medicine.

Restricted activities

5 No person other than a registrant may practise naturopathic medicine.

Limits or conditions on services

6 No registrant may

(

a) prescribe or administer drugs for internal or external use other than the preparations and medicines specified in bylaws made by the board and approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council,

(

b) use or administer anaesthetics for any purpose, or

(

c) practise surgery.

Patient relations program

7 The college is designated for the purposes of

section 16 (2) (

f) of the Act.

Health profession corporations

Part 4 of the Act applies to naturopathic medicine.

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